The co-founder of an estate agency in Cornwall who threatened to kill directors in a series of shocking social media videos has been refused bail after allegedly breaching restraining orders imposed by the Crown Court and Magistrates Court and will remain in jail until his trial starts on Friday.

Gareth Wills, of Mylor Downs near Falmouth, was spared jail in August but was made subject of a restraining order preventing him from contacting any employees or directors of the estate agency he co-foundered or going to their offices or making social media videos about the company.

But on leaving court, Wills, in breach of the restraining order, recorded a video posted to TikTok and Instagram right outside court in which he discussed the case, said he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice and stated he would be pursuing the money be said was owed to him by Lewis Haughton Wills.

Wills, co-founder of Lewis Haughton Wills, was ordered to reappear in court in early September after Judge Robert Linford became aware of the video and comment.

Addressing Wills, Judge Linford outlined Wills’ breach of the order and demanded “blind and unquestionable obedience” from now on before warning him any further breach would mean 20 months in prison.

Wills recorded a series of videos during which he threatened to kill his fellow directors if they did not pay him the money he believed he was owed.

Gareth Wills – a founder of the estate agency side of Lewis Haughton Wills which has branches in Falmouth, Penryn and Truro – also insulted his former colleagues in the videos posted on social media.

During one video, Wills called director Paula Haughton an imp and fellow director Mark Lewis ‘a fat little dwarf’.

Brown said: “He ends the video by saying I’m f*cking sick of this. Pay me the money or face the consequences.

“In the second video, he says ‘send me my money because I’m as hard as the day is long. Pay me my money you f*cking bastards. You’d better get people around them or I’ll explode’.”

Wills was also charged with threatening to cut off the head of Haughton and hold her family at gunpoint and cut Sophie Lang into pieces.

Wills was arrested on 30 September after being accused of breaching a number of orders made by the courts within days of them being made.

Having allegedly breached several restraining orders, Wills did not appear at Truro Crown Court last week (13 October) when his solicitor Neil Lewin made representations to Recorder Robin Sellars at Truro Crown Court for Wills to be released from custody.

Opposing bail, Nick Lewin for the Crown Prosecution Service told the court that Wills was made the subject of a suspended sentence order by Truro Crown Court on 23 August, when he was sentenced by Judge Linford with a clear message from him that any further breaches of a restraining order that was the subject of those proceedings would result in his remand in custody.

Wills will remain in custody until he appears at Truro Crown Court on Friday 21 October.